History of northern Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources; an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories; biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers; views of county seats, etc., Part 282

Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1052


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car-load of food for the sufferers. They replied in the affirmative, and through Mr. Jones' efforts the car was filled, and was the first donation of food received by the authorities of Chicago from Wis- consin. In 1877, he was elected to the Legislature, and served


nooga, T'enn., during his service in the army. He has worked in . with credit to himself and his constituents. In 1878, the Repub-


licans of the Sixth District nominated a candidate for Congress who was ineligible. His name was taken from the ticket, and Mr. Jones received the unanimous vote of the convention. It was but twenty days before clection, and no time for an active canvass, but Mr. Jones' popularity secured for him 11,000 votes, but falling short of an election. In the Order of Odd Fellows Mr. Jones is one of the leading and most active members. He


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was a charter member of Winnebago Lodge of Oshkosh, No. 120; has filled every office in this jurisdiction ; also Past Grand Master and Grand Representative to the Grand Lodge of the United States. Mr. Jones is one of the best representatives of the self- made men of this country, and in his own person exemplifies the possibilities of well directed efforts, combined with striet integrity. He is public spirited, liberal, and a leader in all public enter- prises that will promote the interests of the city.


JOHN R. JONES, of the firm of Williamson, Libbey & Co., manufacturers of sash, doors and blinds; came to Oshkosh in December, 1857; employed for a few months in sash, door and blind factory ; then worked at trade of carpenter and builder for two years ; then he went to the Southern States, where he remained until the war broke out, when he returned to his native State, New York; remained there two years ; and, after another year's residence at Oshkosh, he went to Chicago, and was there two years, sinee which time he has been a permanent resident of Osh - kosh. For the last seven years, he has had a partnership interest in the sash, door and blind factory. He was married, at Racine, Wis., in May, 1866, to Mary A. Davis, a native of Madison Co., N. Y. They have five children-Edward V., Robert R., Bessie R., Susie M. and John W. Mr. Jones is a member of the I. O. O. F., A. O. U. W. and K. of H.


CHARLES O. JOSSLYN, of the firm Lane & Josslyn, Tre- mont House; was born in Penobscot Co., Maine, April 11, 1845, his parents being Thomas S. and Sarah G. (Chapman) Josslyn. About 1864, he took a position as hotel clerk in East Corinth, Me., and remained about three years. After a short time in Dexter, he then went to Bangor, and engaged as elerk in dry goods store. Three years later, he went into business for himself, selling dry goods in Ellsworth, Me., the firm being Lyon & Joss- lyn ; sold out in two years, and went to Boston, engaging as traveling salesman, a business he followed five years. In 1876, he came to Oshkosh, and engaged in the dry goods business, the firm being Josslyn Bros. In March, 1881, formed a partnership with Mr. Lane, and took the Tremont House. Mr. J. is a mem- ber of A., F. & A. M. Lodge and Chapter of Maine, and Oshkosh Commandery, No. 11.


E. C. KELLOGG, lumberman and logger ; eame to Oshkosh, Wis., in fall 1855 ; employs from 100 to 150 men during the log- ging season, and 85 to 110 horses and oxen, and get out from 4,500,000 to 6,000,000 feet anuually. The firm name is Kellogg & Rumery. Mr. K. was born in New Haven, Vt., Jan. 20, 1817. He went to Massachusetts with his parents at the age of five years, where he was engaged in lumbering until he was thirty- eight years of age, being about twenty-two years of age, when he began business for himself. He came to Oshkosh in the fall of 1855, and the following winter he began the lumbering business, which he has been engaged in, excepting two years, owing to the hard times of 1857-58, and, no means of transportation, he was obliged to suspend operations, but since then he has been actively engaged. He was married, in Shutesbury, Mass., June, 1839, to Miss Maria S. Stetson, who was born in the latter place Oct. 14, 1828. They have four children-George E., Clara M., Olive C. and Nanie S.


DR. WALTER KEMPSTER, Superintendent of Northern Hospital for the Insane; was born in Syracuse, Onondaga Co., N. Y., May 25, 1841 ; attended common graded and high schools in Onondaga Co .; then spent about five years traveling with a tutor in the United States and Europe; returned to New York State about 1857, and then entered upon the study of his profession at the Long Island Medical College, from which he graduated June 30, 1864. He went into the civil war as private, in Co. H, of the 12th New York Infantry ; became Hospital Steward of the 10th New York Cavalry; was detached and placed on duty at the United States General Hospital at Patterson Park, Baltimore, Md .; made First Lieutenant of Co. D, in 10th New York Cav- alry ; participated in the various battles of the Potomae, including that of Gettysburg; and, in 1864-65, served as Acting Assistant


Surgeon of the United States Army; was in the service in all from 1861 to 1864, with the exception of six months, during which he absented himself to take his degree in medicine. In 1866, he was the Assistant Superintendent of the New York Asylum for Idiots, at Syracuse, N. Y .; from 1867 to 1873, Assistant Physician of the New York State Insane Asylum, and, from 1873 to present time, Superintendent of the Northern Hos- pistal for the Insane at Oshkosh, Wis. He was married, in Balti- more, Jan. 1, 1863, to Miss Mirriem P. Baynes, eldest daughter of Thomas Baynes, of Baltimore. They have three children liv- ing-Sarah W., Agnes, Mary. For a number of years, Dr. Kempster has been engaged in the study of the microeopie path- ology of the brain, on which subject he has written several papers, beside taking a large number of photo-micrographs of brain tis- sue, normal and abnormal, a work in which he was the first in this country to engage. He delivered a lecture in the fall of 1881 before the Chicago Biological Society. His most notable ease in surgery is that of the excision of three inches of the tibia, with recovery, reported in the American Journal of Medical Science. His literary contributions to medicine consist of articles in the American Journal of Insane, of which he was for five years asso- ciate editor; in the transactions of the International Medical Congress in 1876, as also in the transactions of the Wisconsin State Medical Society, and the reports of Northern Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane. He is a member of the Winnebago County Medieal Society, of which he has been President; of Wisconsin State Medical Society, of which he has been Vice President ; of New York State Medical Society ; of American Medical Association, of which he has been Chairman of the section on Physiological Medieal Jurisprudence and Chemistry ; of the Association of Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane; of the United States Association for the Advance- ment of Sanitary Science, and of the Wisconsin State Historical Society.


JAMES E. KENNEDY, dealer in a general line of groceries, staple and fancy goods, 147 Main street, settled in Oshkosh Wis., in 1858, and began the grocery business the same year, in company with E. W. Viall, and continued in company until 1872; sold out and engaged in the manufacturing of boots and shoes, which he continued unttl the fire of 1875, when he was burned out. He began his present business in the fall of 1875. He was born in Ireland, May 14, 1833 ; emigrated to America in in 1849. He was married in Cleveland, Oho, in 1858, to Miss Ellen Andrews ; she was born in Huron Co., Ohio, Nov. 13, 1838. They have four children-Charles A., Ella K., Bell and Jane A. Charles A. assists his father in store. They do about $100,000 business per annum. Mr. K. was a member of the Wisconsin Legislature in 1869.


KENNY BROS., hat and bonnet bleachers and shapers ; firm composed of Daniel and John T. Kenny, commenced busi- ness in 1878; run by steam and have complete apparatus 'for doing all kinds of work. Daniel Kenny (firm of Kenny Bros. ) was born in Elmira, N. Y., in 1854; came to Oshkosh, Wis., with his parents in 1856 ; he went to Chicago and learned his trade, remain- ing six years, and then returned to Oshkosh. Mr. K. is a mem- ber of St. Peter's temperanee society.


IRA KEZERTEE, dentist, office in Beekwith Block, estab- lished in 1853. Ile was born in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, June 4, 1825, and lived there until 1845, and learned dentistry ; also studied medicine. IIe settled in Marysville, Union Co., Ohio, and followed his profession until 1853, when he moved to Oshkosh and established as above noted, being the oldest established dentist in the city. Ile has also a good run of custom. He was married in Bergen, Genesee Co., N. Y., May 12, 1850, to Miss Esther L. Ward, who was born in the latter place, Feb. 22, 1826. They have two children-Irene A. and Lyman W. Irene A. was mar- ried to Mr. Albert Evans, Aug. 18, 1881 ; he is Principal of First Ward School ; and Lyman W. is elerking in a grocery and fruit store.


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FREDERICK KING, of the firm of King & Englebright, proprietors of saloon and billiard tables in west end of Tremont House. Mr. K. was born in Switzerland, July 1, 1855. He emigrated to America in 1864, and settled in Oshkosh, Wis .; attended the public and select schools about two years, then he worked in a stave factory about one year; then he engaged as clerk in a cigar store two and a half years, after which, he clerked for another firm, doing the same business two and a half years. March 11. 1870, he engaged as clerk in a liquor store until Dec. 3, 1880. He engaged in the liquor business until 15th of March, 1881, on Main street, and followed the same until June 1, 1881, when he went in company with Mr. William H. Englebright in rear of Tremont House. He was married in Oshkosh, Wis., May 1879, to Miss Mary H. Gorman ; she was born in Cherryfield, Me., May 20, 1859. They lost one daughter-Anna King.


JOHN LAABS, logger and lumberman, located in 1864, and began lumbering in 1872; usually employs thirty men and gets out 2,000,000 feet, which he markets generally in Oshkosb, Wis. Mr. L. was born in Germany, Jan. 10, 1840; emigrated to Ame- ica in 1856, and settled in Fond du Lac, Wis., and farmed on shares until 1864. then moved to Oshkosh and engaged in the flouring mill business until 1872, since which time he has been in the lumber business. He was married in Oshkosh, February, 1865, to Miss Matilda Wessenberg; she was born in Germany. They have three children living, named, William J., Lydia, Daniel ( de- ceased) and Elsie (living ).


LAABS & LAMPERT, boots and shoes; commenced busi- ness in 1881, succeeding J. B. Stone ; carrying stock of about $5,000 or $6,000. Matt Lampert, firm of Laabs & Lampert, was born at West Bend, Washington Co., Wis., June 12, 1857 ; his parents having come from Switzerland and settled in Washing- ton Co. in 1849 ; came to Oshkosh in 1875, and engaged in the grocery business, and was burnt out in 1877 ; after this moved to Kansas, where he was book-keeper and salesman in a general store; returned to Oshkosh in 1880. Mr. Lampert is a member of the Lodge of Good Templars.


JAMES WILLIAM LADD, County Treasurer ; was born at Campton, N. H., May 5, 1838; lived there until May, 1845, when his parents, with their family, removed to Beaver Dam, Dodge Co., Wis., where they resided until October, 1846. when they came to what is now the town of Menasha, Winnebago Co., where his father, James Ladd, pre-empted his present farm in the spring of 1846; James William Ladd was reared on the farm, graduated from Lawrence University, at Appleton, in June, 1862 ; subsequently taught school for nearly a year at South Beaver Dam, and then went to Kansas, where he was employed for a short time as Special Deputy to the United States Marshal; io October, 18 3, he went to Fort Larned, and was chief clerk in a mercantile establishment and the post office for eighteen months ; from 1865 to Jan. 1, 1867, he was Postmaster at Fort Dodge, and was also engaged in the mercantile business there during that period; in January, 1867, he returned to Menasha and engaged in the grocery trade in partnership with his brother Christopher ; he continued in that business until the fall of 1879; he was City Clerk and Overseer of the city poor of Menasha for several years, and Justice of the Peace one year prior to entering upon the duties of County Treasurer Jan. 1, 1881 ; he was promi- nently identified with the school interests of Menasha for several years, and was a member of the School Board for some time; he is President of the Alumni Association of Lawrence University, and is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery ; also of I. O. O. F. Lodge and Encampment. He was married at Evanston, III., May 20, 1874, to Mary Eliza- beth, daughter of A. B. Jackson, one of the pioneer settlers at Kenosha, Wis .; she was born in the town of Bristol, Kenosha Co., Wis .; they have one son living-Andrew B. Jackson, born in April, 1878; lost one daughter-Florence ; she was born June 10, 1875, and died May 18, 1877. Mr. Ladd's father was born at Sudbury, Vt., in 1799, and first came to Wisconsin in the


spring of 1844; he is a vigorous and active man now. personally looking after his farming interests ; his wife, Charity Willey, was born at Campton, Grafton Co., N. H., in January, 1804, and died iu December, 1864.


G. R. LAMPARD, musical instruments ; commenced busi- ness in 1866; Mr. L. is general agent for the State of Wisconsin for W. W. Kimball, of Chicago ; the yearly sales have run up to $42,000, and during the month of June, 1881, they were $10,- 000; Mr. Lampard has written and composed a great deal of musie, some of the pieces having a large sale, of which we may enumerate the following instrumental music : " Going to the Pic- nic," waltz ; "Singing Birds," polka ; "Golden Plume," schot- tische, and " Cymbella March " for ball organ ; the best known of his songs are, " My Home by the Sea," " Gathering Up the Pearly Shells," " Don't Wait for a Better Time to Come," and " Fun With the Boys." He has published in all fifty-three pieces ; was born in Deerfield, Ohio, Juoe 9, 1836; his parents moved to Illinois, when he was three years old, locating near Quincy, in which place his father was a merchant for some time ; the subject of our sketch was employed in his father's store for a time ; studied music in Quincy and finished his education in the Normal Musical Institute at North Reading, Mass .; came to Wisconsin in 1856, and located in Appleton ; engaged in teaching music; moved to Oshkosh the next year and followed the same business about two years ; after spending about one year in Chi- cago in the music store of Higgins, the pioneer house of Chicago, be removed to Ripon, Wis., where he kept a store, and also taught music for some four years. Was married at Fremont, Waupaca Co., Wis., Aug. 23, 1857, to Miss Delia A. Sherburne, of Waupaca Co .; they have two children-Frank, Jennie (widow of Mr. F. J. Clark. Mr. L. belongs to the A., F. & A. M. Lodge.


GILBERT LANE, hotel proprietor; was born in Camillus, Onondaga Co., N. Y., May 1, 1821. In 1844 he came to Ceres- co, Wis., where he was connected with the Fourierite Association ; he ran the first separator threshing machine in that region ; in 1845 he drove an ox team to Oshkosh, which was the first team which was driven through to that point from Ceresco; in 1856 he went to Southern Illinois, and kept hotel there until 1861 ; he had been engaged in teaching at Paris, Edgar Co., Ill., prior to 1844; in 1861 he returned to Fond du Lac Co., and located at Ripon, in the vicinity of his earliest location in Wisconsin; about the time the war closed he purchased the Mapes House, at Ripon ; owned and operated the hotel for about three years, then sold out and came to Oshkosh, and was engaged in hotel business here un- til 1873; from that time he was not engaged in active business until he became one of the proprietors of the Tremont House, io March, 1881 ; in this connection it is proper to say that there is no hotel in Northern Wisconsin which is better conducted than the Tremont House. Mr. Lane was married at Paris, Ill., in March, 1846, to Mary J. Kimbrough, a native of Kentucky ; Mr. L. is a member of A., F. and A. M. Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery.


C. H. LARRABEE, superintendent, Paine & Co .; was born in MeKean Co., Pa., July 6, 1837 ; his parents, Ebenezer and Lucinda (Knapp) Larrabee, were originally from Massachusetts ; they moved from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin in 1855, locating in Omro, Winnebago Co. The subject of this sketch came to Osh- kosh in 1862, and engaged as shipping clerk with C. N. Paine & Co., and has been superintendent for Paine since about 1864; he was married in Oshkosh in December, 1865, to Annetta C. George, of Winnebago Co., who died in 1868, leaving one son-Herbert N .; Mr. L. was married to his present wife, Miss Josephine E. Mans- field, of Janesville, Wis., in December, 1871; they have one child. a daughter -- Josephine A .; Mr. L. is a member of Knights of Hon- or, and of the Royal Arcanum.


W. F. LARISII, foreman machinery, Foster & Jones; was born in Columbia, Penn., Jan. 31, 1843; learned his trade in Philadelphia ; culisted Oct. 10, 1861, in Co. D, 84th Penn. V. I.


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as private ; served until mustered out, July, 1865 ; during this time Mr. L. was with the regiment in eighteen general engage- ments, in addition to skirmishes ; was at " Petersburg," " Wilder- ness," "Spottsylvania Court House," and the surrender of Lee ; came to Wiscousin to settle, in January, 1880 ; located in Oshkosh; was married in Luzerne Co., Penn., Aug. 27, 1868, to Hattie E. Downing, of that enunty ; they have two children-Frank A. and Arthur ; is a member of I. O. O. F., of Philadelphia.


FRANK LARIE, proprietor Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad House; he was born in Prussia, Germany, Sept. 19, 1840; he eame to Oshkosh, Wis., in 1854, and farmed twenty years; then moved into the city, built his hotel in 1874, and it burned down in a few days after he moved in ; he immediately began the erection of his present large hotel building ; he has a large barn in connection with his hotel, and is doing a good business. He was married Oct. 20, 1867, to Miss Barbara Herman, who was born in the South. They have five children living and three deceased, as fol- lows: Charles, Joseph and Mary, deceased; and John, Tina, Peter, George W, and Rosa A., living.


HENRY L. LAWSON, insurance and loan agent ; was born in Baltimore, Md., March 27, 1843; came to Winnebago Co., Wis., June 8, 1861. He served for nearly three years in con- struction corps of the army, during the late war of the rebellion, afterward was on a farm in the town of N.kimi for about six years, then came to Oshkosh and engaged in his present business. He was married in the town of Utica, Winnebago Co., Wis., in February, 1868, to Rosamond Stone, a native of Essex Co., N. Y. They have three children-Carrie Stella, Lester Henry and Edith Vern ; lost one daughter, Olive Ann, who was born Jan. 20, 1869, and died Nov. 12, 1879. Mr. L. is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Blue Lodge, Chapter and Oshkosh Commandery.


S. B. LAWRENCE, Jumberman and logger, settled in Osh- kosh in 1855, and began Jumbering in winter of 1855-56. He employed about 65 men in winter of 1881, and gets out from one- hall' to five million feet per annum, and sells to manufacturers in Oshkosh and Fond du Lac. He was born in Winslow, Me., Jan. 31, 1824 ; he began lumbering for himself at the age of eighteen years on the St. Croix River, in Washington, Me., which he fol- lowed until 1854, at which time he went to Oshkosh, Wis., and since settling there has made the above his business. He was married in Springfield, Me., Sept. 15, 1849, to Miss Naney A. Craig, who was born in Providence, N. B. They have five chil- dren living-Gustave, Carrie S., Samuel B., Jr., Matt and Dwight; Carrie S. is married to Mr. G. Metz, who is engaged in the leather business in Oshkosh.


WILLIAM LEARD, manufacturer of and wholesale dealer in clothing ; was born in Ashippun, Dodge Co., Wis., Oct. 23, 1849, engaged in farming until he was twenty-two years of age, then removed to Oconomowoc, and engaged in the grocery business, which he continued for two and a half years. In February, 1875, he came to Oshkosh and began clothing business in a small way, now he employs from sixty to eighty hands; in 1879 he intro- duced steam for running the machinery in the manufacturing department of his business; he being the first to use steam in clothing factories of Wisconsin. Mr. Leard was married at Ocono- mowoe, Dee. 3, 1872, to Maggie Douglas, a native of Ashippun, Dodge Co., Wis. They have three children-Maggie, Ida and William, Jr.


D. L. LIBBEY, President of the Union National Bank ; was born in Ossipee, N. HI. In the spring of 1841, he went to Lowell, Mass., where he learned molder's trade ; he went to Califor- nia in the winter of1849-50, where he remained until 1855 ; then returned to the East, and remained until he came to Oshkosh, Wis., in September, 1855 ; he has been engaged in the lumber busi- ness ever since he came here. Mr. Libbey is one of the most enterprising business men in this region, having been prominently identified with various manufacturing institutions; he has been President of the Union National Bank since its organization.


GUSTAV M. LINDEMANN, foreman in Schmit Bros.' Trunk Factory ; Mr. Lindemann was born in Germany Jan. 26, 1846 ; emigrated to America in 1850 and settled in Manitowoc, Wis .; lived there until he was nineteen years of age, where he at- tended the public schools. He then went to Chicago, Ill., and learned his trade, living there eleven years in the trunk business for H. Volger & Co. He then came to Oshkosh and began as foreman for the Schmit Bros .; he was married in Madison, Wis., July 6, 1870, to Miss Josephine Zaunbrecher, who was born in Germany Nov. 27, 1850. They have three children-Oscar G., Walter E. and Adela L.


CHRISTIAN LOOK, wholesale and retail dealer, and manu- facturer of cigars; manufactures 300,000 per annum; employs eight hands ; established first in Berlin, Wis., in 1870; was there uutil 1875 ; he then came to Oshkosh and began business. He learned his trade in New York City in 1866-67 ; he was born in Hanover, Germany, June 17, 1847 ; emigrated to America in 1866 and lived in New York City eighteen months ; then to She- boygan and worked until 1870 at cigar making. Was married near Oshkosh in 1870 to Miss Henrietta Kobs, who was born in Prussia Oct. 31, 1851 ; they have four children-Nettie, Emma, Else and Martha.


T. J. LOUGHRIDGE, engineer J. L. Clark & Son ; was born in Mansfield, Richland Co., Ohio, in 1847, learned his trade in Ohio, where he was engaged in a portable mill for the A. & G. W. R. R .; came to Wisconsin in 1871 and located in Oshkosh, and engaged in engineering in mills. Mr. Loughridge is a mem- ber of the I. O. O. F.


WM. II. LUCE, filer for G. W. Pratt; was born in Ashtabula Co., Ohio; his parents were originally from New York State, though long residents of Ohio; in company with them he came to Wisconsin and located in Dane County, engaged in farming ; after spending some three years in Orleans Co., N. Y., engaged in farm- ing, the subject of our sketch returned to Wisconsin and located for a time in Stevens' Point, engaged in milling; followed the same business in Wausau about three years, and then returned to Stevens' Point and engaged with his brother in a wagon shop ; en- listed at Stevens' Point September, 1861, in the 3rd Wis. Art., serving until 1864, when he was mustered out. During this time he participated in all actions the company were engaged in. He returned to Stevens' Point, where he remained nutil he came to Oshkosh in 1866, where he has remained since, with the exception of short intervals spent at different parts of the State; was with Payne, of Oshkosh, some eleven years; he engaged with G. W. Pratt in 1881. He was married in Jefferson Co., Wis., in 1866, to Miss Emeline Darmuth, of that county ; they have three chil- dren living-Daniel H., Henry and Daisy May. Mr. Luce is a member of the Royal T. of T., and of the Temple of Honor.


THOMAS LYONS, sawyer for Scott & Libbey ; was born in New York City Feb. 12, 1844; his parents, Patrick and Cath- erine (MeCormick ) Lyons, moved from there to Wisconsin in 1849; located in Dodge County and engaged in farming. The subject of this sketch commenced working in the mills at Fond du Lac in 1872, in general occupation. In 1880 he moved to Osh- kosh and engaged in sawing for O. D. Peck ; engaged with Scott & Libbey May, 1881.


O. McCORISON, furniture, picture frames, moldings, ete .; he commenced this business in May, 1878, and carries a stock of from 83,000 to $4,000; will do a business this year of about $10,000. Mr. McCorison was born in Brownsville, Me., July 2, 1843; in 1850 he came to Wisconsin with his parents, and they located in Oshkosh ; they remained only one year, and then removed to Waupaca Co. The subject of this sketch learned his trade in Illinois, and worked for a time in Appleton, Wis. Ile enlisted in New London, Wis., August, 1861, in Co. A, 1st W. V. I .; mustered out Dee. 18, 1862; discharged for disability, having been about four months in hospital. In 1864, he com- menced business in New London, in which he continued for uine or ten years, when he sold out, and moved to Oshkosh, where be




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